ReviewProof
Would your reviews survive a closer look?
The FTC’s Rule on Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465) has been in force since October 2024, and it carries civil penalties per violating review. This audit shows you where your own review programme sits against it — every finding tied to the evidence behind it.
$450/ audit · 3 live signals · delivered within days
What we check
Three signals we can prove. Two we won’t fake.
Most vendors would list five. Two of these can’t be measured honestly from the data available, so they’re priced out and marked below rather than padded in.
Incentives tied to a positive review
Scans the review-request emails you forward us for language conditioning a reward on a 5-star or positive outcome. Incentivising a review of ANY sentiment is legal; conditioning it on sentiment is not — we check for the difference, not the keyword.
Review-count regression
We capture your public review widget over time and flag it when the published count goes DOWN. Real reviews don’t vanish on their own — a drop is either platform moderation or suppression, and you should know which.
Review-timing bursts
An unusually dense cluster of reviews measured against your own store’s baseline posting rate — the shape purchased batches make. Needs at least 10 dated reviews in your widget’s structured data, or we report insufficient rather than guess.
Undisclosed insider reviewsnot offered
Not offered. Detecting employee or family reviews reliably needs data no public page exposes. We’d rather leave it out than sell you a guess dressed as a finding.
Review hijackingnot offered
Not offered. It appeared in the FTC’s PROPOSED rule but was dropped from the final one, so there is no Part 465 penalty provision to measure you against.
Sample finding
Risk surfaced, with the receipt.
Illustrative — the format every real finding follows.
high · incentivised reviews
2 of 14 review-request emails offer a discount conditioned on a 5-star review specifically.
Next step: Drop the sentiment condition — “leave a review, get 10% off” is fine; “leave a 5-star review, get 10% off” is the part that creates exposure. Both flagged emails are named in the report with the offending line quoted.
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SimpleSense surfaces risk patterns and cites the rule text behind them. It is not a law firm and this audit is not legal advice — judgment calls go to your own counsel.